Grain measure and tally



(No Model.)

J. N. HOLLAND.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OrmesG JOHN NEVTON HOLLAND, OF THORPS SPRNG, TEXAS.

GRAIN MEASURE AND TALLY.,

PBCIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 887,302, dated August 7, 1888.

Application led March 2l, 1888. Serial No. 267,954. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN NEWTON Hoi.- LAND, a citizen of the United States,residing at Thorps Spring, in the county of Hood and State of Texas, have invented a new and use ful Improvement in Grain-Measures, of which the following is a specication.

The invention relates to improvements in grain-measures; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in the ap peuded claims.

In the drawings, Figurel is a front view of a machine embodying the invention. Fig. 2

is a vertical longitudinal section of the same.

Fig. 3 is a front view of the dial-train with the dial-plate removed. Fig. Ai is a top edge view of the same. Fig. 5 is a front view of a modification of the working mechanism.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates the frame of the machine, to which is attached the elevator B, of common construction, havingrollenpulleys at each end and an apron provided with suitablebuckets running between said pulleys. The elevator is operated by means of a pulley, I), on the extended shaft of the highest roller. At its upper end the elevator-casing is turned downward and formed into a spout, b, which discharges into the measuring mechanism proper.

Gis a rectangular casing attached to the front ofthe main frame, and having at its opposite ends the vertical compartments c c', discharging, respectively, at their lower endsinto the grainpassages c2 c3,which converge downward to the common discharge-spout, c.

D D are slides moving in suitable ways or grooves, d, respectively above and below the compartments or measures c c', which are of equal size and have preferably the capacity of half a bushel each. The said slides are not long enough to cover the adjoining ends of both measures at the same time, but are arranged to be moved in such manner that when the slide D closes the top of the compartment c the slide D will close the bottom of the compartment c', andthe reverse.

E is an oscillating chute pivoted inthe front and rear walls of a central upward extension of the casing O centrallybelow the grainspout b', and e c are inclined planes leading on each side of said chute to the respective measuringcompartments.

e2 is an arm standing from the shaft of said chute toward the compartment c.

F is a shaft having its ends journaled about centrally in the walls of the casing O,and consequently standing between the two measun ing-compartments. f is an arm standing laterally from said shaft toward the compartment c', and f is a link-rod connecting the ends of the arms fand e2.

G G' are arms that extend, respectively, upward and downward from the shaft F, and g g are link-rods that respectively connect the said arms to the lower surface of the slide D and the upper surface of the slide D'.

H is a double-armed lever attached cen trally to the outer journal of the shaft F, eX- tended outside of the casing C, and having a handle on each end.

In operation,when the device is attached to a thrasher or separator, so that the grain will be carried up by the elevator,it willfall thence from the spout b, then descend upon the oscillating chute E,whence it will pass over one of the inclined planes and into the measuringcompartment toward which the chute inclines. W'hen said compartment is full, the lever H is reversed,so that the slides are reversed and the chute also. The upper slide, D, thus forms a striking-board for leveling the grain in the compartments,while the lower slide, D', alternately forms a false bottom for each compartment. The double-armed lever is worked by hand.

The registering mechanism is as follows:

7L 7L are pawls pivoted to the arms ofthe lever H respectively above and below the pivotal point thereof, and preferably in slots in said arms.

I is a ratchetwheel, and J and K are cogwheels, having their shafts pivoted in the outer wall of the casing O, extended laterally, and in the dial-plate L, secured to said wall by end clips, Z. Each of said wheels has its outer journal extended through the dial-plate and 'furnished with a pointer, and each of said journals projects through the center of a dial, the dials for the wheels I, J, and K being respectively those of units, tens, and hundreds. The pointers for said dials are designated, re-

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spectively, by ,j, and lc. The ratchet-wheel I is engaged and rotated one tooth by the pawls h h at each oscillation of the chute E, and consequently at the emptying of each compartment c c. The wheel I has on its side a pin, z", which at each rotation of the wheel I moves the wheel J one tooth. The wheel J is also provided with a pin, j', on its side, whichj at each rotation of said wheel turns the wheel K one tooth. The wheel I, as its dial has twenty grado-ations, registering bushels and half-bushels, has twenty teeth. The wheels J and K, as their dials have but ten graduations and register bushels only, have ten teeth each.

M and M are detentsthatprevent the wheels J and K from reversing their rotation.

In the modilcation shown in Fig. 5 the slides have racks N N secured to them,which mesh with curved racks O O,connected with the shaft F.

The operation is obvious.

Having described my invention, I claiml. In a grain-measurer, the combination of the pivoted oscillating chute, the two similar 'nd equal measuring-compartments arranged on the sides ofthe chute,the slides above and below the compartments, arranged to cover alternately one the top and the other the bottom of the compartments, and moving in opposite directions, and mechanism,substan tially as described, whereby said slides are operated, substantially as specified.

2. In a measuring device, the combination of the pivoted oscillating chute, the similar and equal measuringcompartments, the inclined planes leading from the chute to the mouths of said compartments, the upper and lower slides moving in opposite directions, and the mechanism, substantially as described, whereby the said slides are operated, substantially as specied.

3. The combination, with the oscillating chute,.the grain-measuring compartments, and the upper and lower slides, of the shaft F,the armf thereon, the arm e2 on the shaft of the chute, the link-rodf, the arms G G', and the link-rods g g, substantially as specified.

4. In a grain-measuring device, the combination, with the oscillating chute, the similar and equal measuringcompartments, the upper and lower slides, and the mechanism, substantially as described, whereby the same are actuated, of the double-arn1ed lever H, the pawls h h', the wheel I, having twenty teeth, the pin i', and pointer t', and connected with the unit-dial having twenty graduations, the wheel J, having the pointerj and pin j, the wheel K, having the pointerc, and the detents M M, the wheels J and K having ten teeth and the tens and hundreds dials each having ten graduations, substantially as specified.

In testimony thatI claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aiiixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN NEVTON HOLLAND.

Witnesses:

J AMES MoMoBRIEs, S. V. lYIoNUCrCr.` 

